Day, marked on 24 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for an urgent investment of resources to protect and maintain tuberculosis (TB) care and support services for people in need ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years ...

If global tuberculosis funding isn't restored, years of progress could be lost, mortality rates may rise and tuberculosis ...

Bill Nye the Science Guy rebukes RFK Jr., WHO calls for help on TB outbreak, and more in today's Morning Rounds newsletter.

GlaxoSmithKline has spent 20 years trying to develop an improved vaccine for tuberculosis, and new data for its lead candidate M72/AS01E suggests it is getting closer to a breakthrough in the disease.

In a new book, author John Green writes about visiting a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, where he met a TB patient not ...

A huge and much-anticipated phase 3 trial of a new tuberculosis vaccine has kicked off in South Africa, raising hopes of a better way to tackle a disease that – despite being treatable – still ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and ...

In the UK, the majority of people have had the BCG vaccine and so their skin tests will often be mildly positive. This does not mean that they have TB: it just means that their immune systems ...